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Q.1
Which of these world-famous opera houses is the oddest one out?
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La Scala, Milan
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Sydney Opera House
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Festspielhaus, Bayreuth
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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Q.2
Which are the correct statistics for Wagner's cycle?
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It contains three operas with a total running time of approximately 12 hours
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... four operas over about 15 hours in total
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... five operas totalling about 18 hours
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... six operas totalling about 20 hours
Q.3
Which term among these is the odd one out?
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Aria
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Recitative
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Libretto
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Chorus
Q.4
The operatic tradition had already begun where, and by when?
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By 1600, in Italy (so it was already happening concurrently with our Shakespeare's plays, for instance)
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By 1700, in Germany
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By 1789, in France (with plentiful reports of aristocrats attending it prior to the Revolution)
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By 1820, in Central Europe, in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars
Q.5
Another 'odd one out' selection ... odder than some, we might fairly say!
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Farinelli
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Pavarotti
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Senesino
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Moreschi
Q.6
The first 150-odd years of opera were dominated, largely, by increasing Baroque sophistication in their music and staging (within what was then technically possible) and it is now around 250 years since a drive began to make the inherently complex medium stylistically leaner, more elegant without a lot of padding and swagger. The opera (with its famous ballet usually known as ) was the work of which composer?
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Christoph Willibald von Gluck
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
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Franz Josef Haydn
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Jean-Baptiste Lully
Q.7
Who was the French composer that updated the Orpheus legend in 1858 (the same year as Moreschi was born), but in a far more buffoon-and-burlesque manner, including the famous 'Infernal Galop' known to most people as the Can-Can?
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Leo Delibes
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Camille Saint-Saens
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Jacques Offenbach
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Jules Massenet
Q.8
Another 'odd-one-out' ... or in this case, 'odd more-or-less-than-one' out, since three of these composers only completed one opera each. Who finished MORE or FEWER than one?
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Beethoven
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Debussy
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Brahms
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Gershwin
Q.9
is also known in French and Italian, but its music is by a 20th-century Russian composer: who?
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Sergei Prokofiev
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Sergei Rachmaninov
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Dmitri Shostakovich
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Aram Khachaturian
Q.10
Which of these is the correct trio for the Three Tenors?
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Domingo, Chaliapin, Pavarotti
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Carreras, Pavarotti, Domingo
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Pavarotti, Carreras, Caruso
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Pavarotti, Domingo, Gigli
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